"With the growth of data-intensive applications and the adoption of cloud models, companies are increasingly challenged to cost-effectively scale and manage their storage environments," said Doug Ingraham, vice president, data center products at Brocade.

This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on Mon, December 19th, 2011

Formerly at McData, Cisco and StorageTek

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. announced the appointment of Doug Ingraham to the position of vice president of Alliances.

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Within this role, Ingraham will oversee the Brocade Strategic Technology and OEM Alliances business units, as well as the Strategic Program Council.Ingraham will report to Brocade CMO, John McHugh.

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In this new role, Ingraham will oversee several key areas relating to BrocadeAlliances initiatives, with a specific focus on forging new alliances and deepening existing relationships with Strategic Technology Alliance and OEM partners.
Ingraham will also oversee the establishment of a program framework for the development of cloud ecosystem alliance partners to educate and extol the benefits of solutions built upon Brocade Virtual Compute Block technology and the Brocade CloudPlex architecture.

For over two decades, Ingraham has been a fixture within the networking industry to a variety of roles.
Prior to joining Brocade, Ingraham held positions at Cisco Systems, StorageTek and AT&T, where he oversaw engineering and marketing efforts related to data and storage networking products.

Ingraham joined Brocade through the acquisition of McDATA in 2006.Most recently, Ingraham served as vice president of Product Management for Brocade Data Center products, where he set the strategic direction for the company's FC business and led the market introduction of the Brocade VDX family of products, at true Ethernet fabric switching solutions for virtualized and cloud-optimized data centers.

A frequent speaker at industry trade shows and an active contributor to wide-ranging discussions on the networking industry, Ingraham holds a B.S. in Computer Science and an M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota.

" The networking industry is at an interesting crossroads in light of the IT transformation that's currently underway and, with our strong reputation for innovation, Brocade is well-positioned to seize market opportunities as they present themselves," said Doug Ingraham, vice president of Alliances at Brocade.

"Over the past decade, Brocade and HP have worked strategically to provide our customers with industry-leading, open and standards-based storage networking solutions to help ensure seamless interoperability in heterogeneous environments," said Doug Ingraham, vice president of data center product management at Brocade.